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Came to practice religious beliefs, but didn't wank to break away from the Church of England like the Pilgrims.
They wanted to make the church more pure, so they were called the Puritans.
They built Salem, a village on Massachusetts Bay -
John Winthrop leads 2nd group of Puritans to Massachusetts Bay colony.
Winthrop's group name their settlement Boston, after a town in England.
John Winthrop was elected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. -
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Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams were two people who believed the Puritans church should be separated from the colony's government.
Puritans leaders voted to expel Williams from Massachusetts
Conneticut is founded -
First college in the English colonies
Rhode Island is founded -
Both Williams and Hutchinson started settlements that joined to form the Rhode Island colony.
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Maryland passed the Toleration Act. This acy gave religious freedom to all Christians.
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Disagreements over land led to war between the colonists and Native Americans.
Metacomet or King Phillip, the leader of the Wampanoag, united many tribes to fight against the colonists.
Hundreds of colonists and 1,00 of Native Americans including Metacomet were killed. -
William Penn, an English Quaker, got approval to start a colony. He named it Pennsylvania.
He also became the owner or proprietor of Delaware.
Penn wrote The Frame of Governments of Pennsylvania. It gave people freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and right to play trial by jury. -
Trading ships carrying goods and raw materials also carried enslaved people from central and western Africa.
Middle Passage- Millions of enslaved Africans were placed on ships and forced to travelacross the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to the English colonies -
Carolina was split into two colonies- North and South Carolina
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New religious movements begins. It "awakened", or renewed, many people's interest in religion.
Poor people, women, and enslaved people even started taking part in religious gatherings. -
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Fort Mose was the first free African settlement in North America.
Some were set free by their owners; others bought their freedom.
